Apprentissage du cinema francais

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Description

An introduction to French cinema, in French, for American college students.  Includes the history of the origins of French film, an explanation of how to analyze a film, a lexicon of French cinema terms, and an analysis of 17 major masterpieces of French filmmaking. A parallel English version of this text is also available, so the same course can be taught to students of French culture as well as students of French language.

Features

Entirely in French, and fits the course that is being developed at the college level.
Has a companion book in case the course wants to accommodate  students taking the course without having or needing the language component.
Has a complete scope of French film history, and focuses on modern French film.

Market

For senior or graduate level courses in French film, taught in French, using an historical approach that covers the full history of French film by focusing on key directors and seventeen films. A companion volume is in English, so courses can contain a mix of students taking the course for language or French civilization credit.

About the Author

Alan J. Singerman (A.B. Ohio University 1964, M.A., Ph.D. Indiana University 1966, 1970), Professor of French, has taught French language, literature, civilization, and film at Davidson since 1982. In addition, he regularly teaches a course in semiotics in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He has studied in Paris, Strasbourg, Freiburg ( Germany), and Montpellier, where he received a Masters degree in film studies in 1985. He has lived ten years in France, directing study abroad programs in Pau, Rennes, and Montpellier before setting up and directing Davidson’s new program in Paris and Tours during the 1995-96 year. His scholarly interests focus on the 18th-century French novel and French cinema. His publications include a monograph on the novels of the Abbé Prévost, L’Abbé Prévost: l’amour et la morale (Geneva: Droz, 1987), a critical edition of Prévost’s 1741 novel, Histoire d’une Grecque moderne (Paris: Flammarion, 1990), an edition of articles on language and culture, Toward A New Integration of Language and Culture (Northeast Conference Reports, 1988), and an edition of guidelines for measuring competence in French culture, as well as articles on French literature and film.

Reviews

Ce texte est remarquable pour plusieurs raisons: l'auteur nous offre toute son expérience dans la critique et l'enseignement du cinéma français; de plus il met à notre disposition une amplitude de références et de citations directes, et enfin il invite l'étudiant/e à devenir à son tour critique et analyste de cette sélection impeccable de films classiques indispensables pour une vraie compréhension de l'histoire du cinéma français.  
                        ~Rebecca Pauly, West Chester University (PA)

Le livre d'Alan Singerman est un outil essentiel à l'enseignement du cinéma français tant par son étude détaillée de films canoniques que par les activités variées qu'il propose. Apprentissage du Cinéma Français offre en sus (et entre autres) lexique, bibliographies et exemples d'analyses de scène, tous extrêmement utiles à l'enseignant comme à l'étudiant.                                 ~Brigitte E. Humbert, Middlebury College

 Apprentissage du cinéma français offers a wonderful selection of classic French films, packed with information on the history, production, technique and reception of each film. The quantity, content and level of readings were just right for my students, who had completed at least six semesters of French. Thank you for writing this much needed book.
                        ~Cheryl Krueger, University of Virginia

To say that Alan Singerman¹s book fills a void in the market is the understatement of the year; it is the single most valuable contribution to the field in years and is destined to have a profound impact on the way film is taught in the college classroom [...] Singerman¹s book is a highly sophisticated educational tool that caters to advanced-level undergraduate and graduate students.
                        ~NECTFL Review, Tom Conner, Professor of Modern Foreign Languages, St. Norbert College

French Cinema Bilingual Website

If you purchase a copy or request a desk copy of Apprentissage du cinema francais or French Cinema: The Student's Book, you will also be granted access to a bilingual website created by Professor Singerman to facilitate the teaching of French cinema in either French or English.

http://franklin.davidson.edu/lrc/french/frenchcinema/index.html
user name: frenchcinema  |    pw: frcinema

Students have permission to access the website and the film clips.
The media files can only be played with RealPlayer, which can be downloaded free of charge from Realplayer.com